On Fri, 08 Jan 1999, Will wrote:
>Hey I was wondering How much memory your machine uses on average
cat /proc/meminfo
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 97533952 95813632 1720320 58093568 18927616 32555008
Swap: 267386880 4075520 263311360
MemTotal: 95248 kB
MemFree: 1680 kB
MemShared: 56732 kB
Buffers: 18484 kB
Cached: 31792 kB
SwapTotal: 261120 kB
SwapFree: 257140 kB
I hope you don't feel bad after that. :)
>I am a little concerned that I am using to much.
>
>I use to boot to run level 5 until I realized that it was taking up 3-4% of my
>memory.
>
>I now boot to run level 3
>
>X is taking up 13-14 % of my memory. :-(
23123 root 8 0 11216 10M 1840 S 0 1.3 11.7 2:12 X
It's taking up 11.7% of mine, but I probably have more RAM than you do.
>I am also running gnome which takes up some memory.
>
>Can this be reduced?
Might I point out that this is precisely what you have memory THERE for? Why
are you worried about it?
>How can I improve my systems proformance and memory usage.
>
>I am also having a problem with my video display. I am running a S3 virge video
>card and when I exit out of X the screen is all messed up. It all readable
>letters but their spread out all over the screen. like:
Sorry, S3s I don't know except that there are some odd problems with them.
::sigh::
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